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Dennis Winters has over twenty-five years of experience in economic analysis, modeling and forecasting; encompassing everything from designing commodity derivative strategies to long-term policy initiative scenario assessments.  Mr. Winters' areas of focus include regional and national macroeconomics, energy and labor markets, and economic impact analysis.  He has served as an advisor to private industry, government agencies, and elected local, state, and federal officials.  Mr. Winters has testified before governmental investigative bodies and appeared in television and radio interviews and has been quoted in the national press such as the Wall Street Journal, Investors Daily, USA Today, the Journal of Commerce, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Swedish equivalent of Business Week, as well as many local newspapers.

Mr. Winters’ recent work in includes the Regional Stewardship Alliance Award winning Northeast Wisconsin Economic Opportunity Study, Quantifying the Early Childhood Economy for the Committee on Economic Development Invest in Kids Working Group, The Economic Returns to the Education System from Investments in Four-Year-Old Kindergarten for Wisconsin for Pre-K-Now, The Value of Construction Apprentices in Southeast Wisconsin, The Economic Impact of the 2004 PGA Championship to the State of Wisconsin, and  Wisconsin's High-Tech Opportunities - a paper published by the Wisconsin Technology Council.  In addition, Mr. Winters was the principal investigator and co-author of Wisconsin's Economy in the Year 2010, published by University of Wisconsin - Madison in May of 2000.  He also authored white papers for the Wisconsin Economic Summits in 2000 and 2001. 

Mr. Winters has recently conducted several studies on the value of higher education in economic development, including Madison Area Technical College's Economic Contribution to the Region, The University of Wisconsin System’s Economic Contribution to Wisconsin, and Kansas Higher Education’s Economic Contribution to the State.   He has served on the Executive Planning Committee for the Wisconsin Economic Summits, as well as Dane County’s Economic Strategies Group.  

Mr. Winters has held senior positions at Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates (WEFA), DRI / McGraw-Hill, the Executive Office of Energy Resources for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Clayton Brokerage Company of St. Louis, Missouri.  He has also served on the faculty at Fisher College in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Institute of Gas Technology (now the Gas Technology Institute) in Chicago, Illinois.  He is now the director of the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development's Office of Economic Advisors.

Dennis Winters was educated at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Colorado State University.  He is constantly being reeducated by his three teenagers.

Dennis K. Winters
Vice President and
 Director of Research

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Mr. Winters was the principal investigator and author of this study, which attempts to define the U.S. economy devoted to early childhood, particularly the segment of the population under five years old - the Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers, or ITP economy.

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